NSL News and Press, Nuveen Senior Income Fund From 10/27/21

As we enter the fourth quarter of 2021, we are inching closer to the eventual rate hikes from the Fed. We've been continuing to monitor the senior loan fund space to find some opportunities worth exploring. AFT, BGB and FRA appear to be funds we would want to explore further with ...

As we approach the end of 2021, I am starting to think ahead to the new year. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated some trends that I believe will continue in the short and longer term, such as e-commerce and corporate technology investment. With rates at historic lows, they are ...

Senior loan funds are showing some opportunities at some wide discounts. These funds should benefit from increasing interest rates, but that could be years before playing out. Be aware of certain other risks in these investments, as well as the other benefits they can provide. ...

Within the non-investment grade credit markets, issuer default rates are an important driver of market and portfolio performance. We believe 2020 ended the credit cycle that began following the global financial crisis, with 2021 marking the start of a new cycle. The duration of th...

Nuveen Senior Income Fund (NYSE:NSL) traded today at a new 52-week high of $5.88. So far today approximately 50,000 shares have been exchanged, as compared to an average 30-day volume of 401,000 shares. Nuveen Senior Income Fund is a diversified closed-end investment company. Its investm...

Only funds with coverage >100% are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY, and DxYxZ are given. Only one fund with >100% coverage had a negative z-score this month. For further details see: The Quality Closed-End Fund Report, June 2021

Nuveen Senior Income Fund (NYSE:NSL) traded at a new 52-week high today of $5.84. Approximately 64,000 shares have changed hands today, as compared to an average 30-day volume of 415,000 shares. In the past 52 weeks, shares of Nuveen Senior Income Fund have traded between a low of $4.59 ...

Fixed income CEF discounts continue to tighten and are approaching 20-year highs. This won't last for long. Part II of this report will focus on when this ends. Muni CEFs remain a better value than taxables but there are small pockets of opportunity in the taxable side if you look and...

Stocks eked out some small gains this week bringing the S&P 500 within a half a percent of the all-time high hit on May 7th. Discounts climbed back to their tightest levels of the last 8 years with munis starting to catch up to taxables. The spreads between the two are down to 1.4...

This is a truly singular global recession and recovery, and it makes portfolio diversification both vital and challenging. At the moment, the item that tops the agenda for most of our clients is no big surprise: inflation, and what to do about it in portfolios. Inflation is usuall...